Associate Professor – Management and Business, Skidmore College
About
I am currently an Associate Professor at Skidmore College in the Department of Management and Business. I received my BA in Sociology at University of Washington, my MBA at University of California-Irvine, and my PhD in Sociology at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Research
The majority of my current research efforts bridge two of my areas of interest: contingent work and technology. My research is framed by the realities of three changes to labor market arrangements that give rise to contingent work being done online: (1) A shift to digitally-enabled remote work that has accelerated since COVID-19’s arrival; (2) shifts in labor toward knowledge work and service jobs as engines of the economy; and (3) shifts in employment arrangements, from the career, to the job, to the project. It is within this context that I situate the three specific areas my current research interrogates: career trajectories of platform workers, the different dimensions of “flexibility” and the implications for workers, and digital entrepreneurship.
Teaching
The act of teaching is kinetic – setting in motion a shared experience in knowledge – a catalyst to an intellectual journey. A journey in which the explorers – both the student and the professor – serve dually as the protagonists and the destination. But a journey needs clear intent, purpose and direction. Otherwise it’s just a jaunt, a sojourn. It is within perspective that I approach the classroom.